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Accelerator Crazy In Southern California

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In just the last few weeks, at least five different incubation/acceleration efforts have booted up in the region. Specifically targeted at clean techonlogy firms, the group has more of a traditional incubator program, offering up office space for 6-8 companies, along with support, resources, and mentorship.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator. An example of that is the UCLA flood. So, he launched Watsup, and the first thing it showed was a highlight of the UCLA flooding. What drove your interest in this area?

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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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I then became and EIR at UC San Diego, and joined EvoNexus, the not-for-profit incubator run by the Irvine Company. But, there is broad agreement that it would be a wonderful thing to get more entrepreneurs and venture capital into the region. As you know, Silicon Valley has a locker grip on the venture capital community.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures. philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more. Incubator: Amplify LA. Entertainment Tech: Atom Factory. Today’s startup innovators come from about six hours south of Silicon Valley. Fun Fact: Los Angeles heavy hitters J.J.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

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to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology. Lou is a friend and colleague from UCLA Anderson. Details coming soon!)

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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The final showoff's have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10 showoff's plus a wild card from the demo night at UCLA (full list of showoff's below). Quilici received a PhD in computer science from UCLA, and from 1991-1999 was a faculty member at the University of Hawaii. . Twiistup 007 Speaker List: Peter Guber.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

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OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Dinesh earned his B.S. in Computer Science and his MBA from UC Irvine. Event Details.